Introduction
Another unorthodox championship fighting game with a steep learning curve. Here, the goal is to go up in rankings until you get invited to a special (underground) tournament where you fight increasingly difficult opponents. The final one, "the warrior", is a very strong, unknockoutable fighter.
Between fights, you are able to train and improve your character to gain strength, speed, and endurance. In this movie, however, I forego this activity and try to kick and punch my way up while being as weak as a new player.
Instead of traditionals like Street Fighter, the pad buttons (except for left and right) do not refer to the direction to move, but a specific kickboxing technique. In total you can use a selection of 20 customizable techniques per fight.
I started TASing this game manually, but quickly realized that, although I could find a win eventually, progress (and the movie itself) was painstakingly slow. Then I realized I could use
JaffarPlus to brute force all possible moves until the opponent is kaputt.
And so I did. The bot discovered ways to quickly and effectively disarm opponents, finding critical countermoves and bashing their skulls in record time. This allowed me to beat a single top-10 fighter in the rankings mode to get immediately invited to the tournament.
The rest is violence.
Software + Hardware
- Name: Best of the Best - Championship Karate (USA)
- File: Best of the Best - Championship Karate (U).smc
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- MD5:3E1AFA72971094777D9733289C9043B6
Routing Bot
